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Matt Fradd

Matt Fradd is the author of Delivered: True Stories of Men and Woman Who Turned from Porn to Purity. After experiencing a profound conversion at World Youth Day in Rome in 2000, Matt has worked through full-time lay ministry in Australia, Ireland, Canada, and Texas. He has served as an apologist for Catholic Answers and has traveled all over the world, speaking to tens of thousands of teens and young adults. He and his wife Cameron have four children and live in North Georgia.

8 comments on “10 Shocking Stats About Teens and Pornography”

What can we do to get all the pornography off of the internet???? What can we do to make it illegal to make a pornographic movie and to take pornographic photos? In my estimation, any photo or film of two or more naked people with their private parts exposed is pornography. If a photo or film is just of one person naked with their private parts exposed, that is also pornography to me, but it is different. I really would not mind random visits from police to our home to check our phones for self took porno photos and films, for I know that I and my family do not take such things. If people knew that they could expect such a visit from the police, I hope that they would not make “sex tapes” and photos of people naked. I really do not think that I am being unreasonable. People need to clean up their acts, for what they are doing angers GOD and if they do not clean up their acts, they must face the punishment from GOD for such sinfulness. Taking movies of one’s own sex acts is far from the beautiful example that Jesus showed us. It is really a choice and I choose to not get such equipment and be involved in such things at all. I thank and praise GOD.

Teenagers kill, rape, rob, assault, commit domestic violence, drink, drug, have sex, have sex with adults, lie, and cheat. None of these things are the actions of “children.” America is major denial about its teens and collectively we cling to this notion of a Beaver Cleaver lifestyle that has never really existed. In short, Americans, as always, lie to themselves.

Absolutely none of these statistics should come as a surprise and in fact, I am willing to venture they are understated. WASP attitudes on sex created this mess in America. Whatever you suppress will always come back with a vengeance. Plus, people seem to want to fight biology and I hate to tell you — biology will win out most the time. For most of recorded history, the age of consent was very low. Anyone can research this quite easily. It is only recently that society determined that magically, at the age of 18, a person was an adult. The reality is that from the early teen years a person is attracted to the opposite sex and interested in sex. We make sex out to be more than it is in this country. Having sex is not some complex thought process. Religious people want to make it out to be one, but biology says otherwise. The religious want to make it out to be some epic battle between good and evil. Right or wrong. Morality or non-morality. The reality, however, is that two people are simply attracted to each other and want to have sex and then have it. The odd thing is that religious ignore the bible when talking about sex. Most people in biblical times were married by the age of 13.

Bottom line is that you teenagers are not children. The only way you change their behaviors is you hold them accountable. No more of this nonsense that they cannot consent or choose because it is obvious they are consenting and choosing. Just this week there was a news story in a town nearby about 10 teenage girls ranging from 13-18 lying about a 19 year old boy raping someone because those girls wanted to mimic the movie “John Tucker Must Die.” That ladies and gentlemen is the level to which your teenagers are not children anymore. I also think we need to hold our girls more accountable because the reality is they are just like boys and watch just as much porn. Girls just play the innocent routine better. The entire porn issue is male centric. Men are evil. Women are innocent. This leads to only dealing with one side of the equation, which of course, will never solve anything.

People need to get realistic about sexuality. However, from what I can see, we are still doing the same old things we did before. We want to hide it from our kids. Make it taboo. Heck, we want to ban everything which is akin to how we used to burn books to get rid of things we thought were morally unacceptable. Instead of just dealing with it we resort to the same tactics that got us in this mess in the first place.

You are right. People are in denial about reality in America. In America, seeing a naked woman is evil but watching a movie with people getting killed is just fine. It is hypocrisy. Here is the reality with porn. If you don’t want to watch it, then don’t watch it. It is that simple. If I am going to hell for looking at porn, when we fight all these useless wars on terror then there is something wrong with all of this.

It has nothing to do with sexual instinct. Yes, we were born with sexual instinct when we go through puberty, but if people just acted on their natural impulses and didn’t Bridal their passions, we would have a world of chaos with more broken homes more one parent homes, more children without parents, more abortion, and more heart ache all around. Each child deserves to have a mother in thought

Bridal their passions, we would have a world of chaos with more broken homes more one parent homes, more children without parents, more abortion, and more Hardik all around. Each child deserves to have a mother hand of the father, who nurture and love and raise them. This will never happen with your attitude about having an impulse and acting on it every time

So, basically, kids aren’t really kids, ever. Do you have children? Are you saying that we are born little hedonistic beings? That we can’t be stopped from doing harmful activities because we are just naturally hedonistic? These numbers should shock you. Child pornography? Beastiality? Group sex? Unrealistic sexual exploitations between couples of any gender?
If those aberrations don’t shock you, I hope that deep down you are disappointed, at the very least. A moral compass is in everyone.
These people performing for the multitudes are someone’s sisters and brothers, sons or daughters or parents. It’s fed by a new wave of immorality that did not exist before the streaming technology. This has not been going on forever and it was not like this years ago. Our societal norms have moved to this from a better mindset.